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In reply to the discussion: Jesse Jackson Jr. To Resign..... [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)and I don't hold it against Rev. Sharpton. If a man doesn't back a woman who cries rape, nobody would be able to protect women ever.
(or do you also back Akin? One is the same as the other. Either rape is rape or it isn't).
It is very unhealthy to hold such long term grudges over things they aren't privy to anyhow.
It was dumb ass grudges that caused people to toss LBJ in the river and allow Nixon/Bush/Reagan to enter the presidency over a little wedge issue that in the scheme of things mattered little to all the social issues in America's history.
The long ball is more important than any specific item.
(Same as a drowning man being blamed for a drowning woman that would not have been saved anyhow. All people wanted was for Teddy to drown himself. )
Keeping ones eye on the prize is far more meaningful than "doing the Dukakis".
and yet some back the cold blooded killing of Mr. Trayvon Martin, who died solely because he was black in a state where racism is alive and daily shown to be.